Overview
- Examines how societal values and public funding shape beliefs about the function of higher education in society
- Explores how higher education compares to other human rights, and if there is a ranking of importance when it comes to rights
- Includes cultural analyses from regions, nation-states, and economies that sort out the degree to which the hypotheses outlined by Neubauer, Shin, and Hawkins (2013) play a role in the conceptualization of higher education as a human right
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Prompilai Buasuwan is Head of the Department of Education and Associate Professor in the Program of Educational Administration at Kasetsart University, Thailand. Her main research interests include quality of education, university and community engagement, internationalization of education, and educational policy analysis and evaluation.Â
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Book Title: Higher Education Access in the Asia Pacific
Book Subtitle: Privilege or Human Right?
Editors: Christopher S. Collins, Prompilai Buasuwan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58670-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58669-4Published: 07 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58670-0Published: 23 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 166
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Philosophy, Asian Culture